Github user darrenfoong commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/668
Hi Jared, thank you for your feedback.
The initial use case that I was thinking of involved a user wanting to:
- use Geode with another JDK (which doesn't have the
`com.sun.org.apache...` Xerces implementation that the Oracle JDK uses), or
- use Geode in an application where he/she wants to use the Apache Xerces
implementation (which will be a dependency of the application) and sets the
system property `javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory` to
`org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl`.
In these cases `xercesImpl` is part of the environment (JDK, app) so I
chose to use `xercesImpl` at only test runtime and "load" it via
`System.setProperty()` in my unit tests.
I don't see why it's needed at test compile time and I don't really
understand your point about people building with (and I presume, for) a JDK
that doesn't include Xerces: in that case, shouldn't `xercesImpl` be a
dependency for `main` too?
I do symphatise with Xerces hell though!
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